Twitter: @CindyBergevin Spotlight on the Internet of Medical Things Cybersecurity is moving to the top of the agenda for leaders of America’s health systems and around the world as hackers target weak hospital IT infrastructure in search of valuable patient data and payouts. From high-profile data breaches at major health providers to a recent ransomware attack that affected more than a…

Twitter: @Tamas_Dankovics Most of us can recall a situation when an ambulance rushed by with flashing lights. There are certain situations when every second counts in order to be able to save a human life or minimize the impact of injury. This weighs heavily on first responders, who are at the front line with their first diagnoses and treatment actions…

Twitter: @nokia Managing the health of our collective society Anyone who has ever experienced a chronic condition knows that a person’s health is among his or her most precious assets. Yet, increasingly, health conditions – including preventable conditions – are compromising the wellbeing of billions of lives around the world. As a result, managing the health of our collective society…

Twitter: @slarxe New patient care platform to scale up remote patient monitoring We could all do more to look after our health, but what if we enlisted that essential tool of modern life to help us – our smartphones? Once you begin to connect smart health monitoring devices to your phone, you are in fact taking ownership of your health data…

Twitter: @v_held Information ages fast in the information age – every millisecond counts Wait a second – has that web page loaded yet? Actually, a second is as long as most of us are prepared to wait to get to the page we want these days. It’s all about latency. Already in today’s world, low latency is crucial. Latency determines the…

Twitter: @simonpoulter In the age of instant information, when anything you want to know about is only a click away, there is no substitute for getting real. And that’s what Mobile World Congress is all about. It’s why 100,000 people come to Barcelona every February, to see, to touch, to hear and to understand for themselves. Take 5G, for example. As…

Twitter: @nokianetworks Do you have an idea that could be a landmark in the use of 5G? Perhaps you’re thinking about how a drone-based service could offer live video of road traffic hotspots to news networks, transport companies and emergency services. There are limitless ideas, but how do you know your service concept is practical and could take off? You…

Twitter: @lshannon45 I just finished reading Ernest Cline’s terrific Ready Player One, a novel that imagines a near-future world in which the majority of people spend the majority of time in a parallel Virtual Reality (VR) universe, while the real world slowly sinks into decay and chaos. This is the classic dystopian view of VR: advanced computing that offers experiences so…

Twitter: @nokianetworks Top prizes for connected home, connected health and connected learning Last Friday I was at our Paris-Saclay campus to participate in the final of the Nokia Open Innovation Challenge – a competition which looks for the next big ideas in Internet of Things domains including public safety, connected automotive, industry 4.0, digital health, utilities, security and smart cities.…

Twitter: @RiittaSiira Going to the hospital for an operation can be a worrying time for anyone. Particularly for a child, faced with frightening-looking machines and wondering what’s going to happen to you, it can be a scary prospect. But what if the time spent in hospital could be reduced? What if results could be achieved and accessed more quickly and efficiently,…